Day: June 4, 2024

Closing Thought–04Jun24

Do you have a fundamental right to vote?

Bet your answer is yes we do have the right…..with the possible exception to the state of Kansas.

The Kansas Supreme Court has made a ruling that has many up in arms….

The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election.

But it was the ballot signature verification measure’s majority opinion — which stated there is no right to vote enshrined in the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights — that drew fiery dissent from three of the court’s seven justices.

The measure requires election officials to match the signatures on advance mail ballots to a person’s voter registration record. The state Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s dismissal of that lawsuit, but the majority rejected arguments from voting rights groups that the measure violates state constitutional voting rights.

In fact, Justice Caleb Stegall, writing for the majority, said that the dissenting justices wrongly accused the majority of ignoring past precedent, holding that the court has not identified a “fundamental right to vote” within the state constitution.

“It simply is not there,” Stegall wrote.

Justice Eric Rosen, one of the three who dissented, shot back: “It staggers my imagination to conclude Kansas citizens have no fundamental right to vote under their state constitution.”

“I cannot and will not condone this betrayal of our constitutional duty to safeguard the foundational rights of Kansans,” Rosen added.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/kansas-constitution-include-vote-state-supreme-court-majority-110730583

If this ruling stands how long will it be before other red states try this end run on the people of their state?

If you are 18 and a citizen it does matter which of the 50 little republics you live you have a duty to vote and if anyone stands in your way then it is time to push back on this betrayal of the people.

Is this what you want for this country?

I Read, I Write, you Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Biden On Immigration–2024

The GOP has been hammering Biden on his lack of substance on immigration……now that the election is just months away he will try and silence some of the criticism with the use of the Executive Order process.

Plus this should provide a much needed diversion from is limp wrist policies toward Israel.

President Biden, under increasing heat to stem the number of migrants crossing the border, is expected to unveil his most aggressive move yet Tuesday in the form of an executive order. The New York Times reports that the order would essentially seal the Mexican border when the number of migrants reaches a certain threshold by prohibiting anyone who crossed the border illegally from claiming asylum. Instead, border officials would be allowed to quickly deport the migrants back to Mexico or their home country, per the Wall Street Journal.

Biden is expected to sign the measure at the White House in the company of mayors from border towns, per the AP. However, whether such an order can withstand a legal challenge is uncertain. The Journal notes that then-President Trump attempted to enforce a “nearly identical ban” back in 2018, but a federal court blocked him on the grounds that it violated longstanding asylum laws allowing anyone to seek asylum no matter how they entered the country.

Immigration has emerged as a top issue in the presidential campaign, with Trump and Republicans criticizing Biden as too soft on the issue. CNN reports that the White House is pushing to put something in place before the first Trump-Biden debate on June 27. While details remain under wraps, the Times calls the broad strokes of the plan “the single most restrictive border policy instituted by Mr. Biden, or any modern Democrat.”

This will do little to solve any problems we have at our borders or to silence that constant nagging by the GOP….it may give him a short burst of support before the election.

This will not solve any problems or help the criticisms….it will make the MSM happy for there will be yet another news story for them to blow out of proportion.

Will this satisfy the armchair geniuses?

Doubtful!

Onward and upward….as they say….

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”